What treaty was signed on June 4, 1494 to settle disputes between Spain and Portugal over newly discovered/explored lands?
Treaty of Tordesillas
100
This disease was very helpful for the Spanish in their quest to topple the Aztec empire
What is Smallpox
100
What was the first permanent British settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown, Virginia
100
This act by the British caused the first continental congress to be convened in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774.
What are the Intolerable acts?
100
This treaty added Texas as the 28th state of the union.
What is the treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo in 1853?
200
In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on and explored what 3 major areas of the Caribbean?
San Salvador, Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti)
200
During the Spanish Conquest 1519-1521, Hernan Cortez defeats this native group in what is present day Mexico.
What is Aztecs
200
Name the rebellion that occurred in 1676 that is one of the largest slave rebellions to ever occur in North American history.
What is the Stono Rebellion
200
This Monopoly aided the British in executing the Tea Act in 1773
What is the British East India Company?
200
This amendment banned all slavery in the U.S. in 1865
What is Thirteenth Amendment?
300
The marriage of ____ and ______ helped to unite Spain and sponsor Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World.
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
300
John Calvin, Martin Luther and the printing press played a large part in this movement which started in 1517.
What is Protestant Reformation
300
Who were the two key leaders involved in Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676?
Who is Nathaniel Bacon and William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia
300
In 1754 a war broke out between the British and this country in early colonial America.
What is the French?
300
These Spanish speaking Texas people helped Commander Sam Houston in fighting back against Santa Ana’s forces.
What are the Tejano people?
400
What "Pre-Colombian" empire ruled in Peru in 1438?
The Incas
400
The Roanoke colony which failed to become a established settlement multiple times was a attempt by this country at early colonization in the Americas.
What is England
400
Name one way in which the New England colonies were different from the other colonies at this time.
What is
-Settlers
-Organization of Settlement
-Economy
-Labor Force
400
This first tax on the American Colonies in 1765 outraged its citizens and resulted in the Sons and Daughters of Liberty harassing tax collectors.
What is the Stamp Act?
400
In 1848 these people came to California in search of gold.
What are the 49ers?
500
Of the three ships Columbus used on his expeditions, there is a replica boat in down-town Corpus Christi. What is the name of the boat that has been replicated?
The Nina
500
This was the first permanent Spanish Settlement founded in 1565 in what in now present day Florida.
What is St. Augustine
500
By 1642, approximately how many people had emigrated from England to the New England colony?
What is 20,000 people
500
These ladies known as the ____________ played a vital role in helping the colonists boycott the British taxation attempts.
What are the Daughters of Liberty
500
This state earned a certain name because of the violence between pro-slavery activists and anti-slavery activists.